Paediatric Habilitation (Advanced Audiology Masterclass)

The course aims to help you:

• develop core skills in managing hearing loss in infants and children to optimise life-long auditory potential
• apply verification and validation techniques for amplification and listening technologies
• integrate care across a team of professionals, centred around the needs of the family
• present and support early communication options around family choice
• understand and derive functional measures of benefit for decision-making on developing listening and expressive speech options

It will also help you:

• introduce a culture of reflective practice, service evaluation and professional learning
• apply new techniques in clinical placements and implement change within departmental practice if appropriate
• constructively evaluate and recognise constraints in observed clinical practice
• understand the responsibility conferred by professional training in paediatric audiology and importance of continually developing knowledge and practice

The indicative content is as follows:

• Family centred hearing management
• Hearing aid selection verification, evaluation and monitoring of amplification progress in children
• Cohesive intervention and assessment of progress by a multidisciplinary team
• Functional speech outcome measures
• Advanced amplification considerations
• Educational management of children with hearing loss